Marked for Agustín Ramírez
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Mitre
Ignacio Pietrobono and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A muscle injury and 16 days out for Marcos Machado
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Mitre will quote 16 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
253% of the income goes out in wages at Mitre
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Santiago Rosales's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Pablo Minissale
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Pablo Minissale has come out of that comparison in the side, and Mitre have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Mitre training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Ramírez is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Maximiliano Romero is on it.
Market2 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Rodrigo González’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Back issues
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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Mitre
Rodrigo González and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Mitre training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Rosales is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad7 Sep 2026
33 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Mitre are still strangers to each other
17 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Loan watch7 Sep 2026
“I watch every Mitre game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Mérida runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Mitre, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
508 appearances across 10 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Mitre know exactly what they have.
Market3 Aug 2026
Matías Maluf hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mitre can pretend not to have heard.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Santiago Rosales and Mitre agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Mitre
Rodrigo González and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Juan Alessandroni falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market3 Aug 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Market3 Aug 2026
36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Oscar Garrido is still paying for one afternoon at Mitre
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.11 on the card, and the Mitre support went home talking about one name.